second
30
7.0
- noun
- /ˈsɛkənd/
- US
- Guys, He's a second baseman, and he's doing well.
- second and third
- first and second
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Examples
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They left her apartment and went down the stairs to the sidewalk and into the sharp winter air on Main Street and on to Johnson's at the corner of Second.
Fiction book (1998) -
I played second base in baseball, the second one pitcher.
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The second is that we need to switch over to organic farming as quickly as possible.
Blog text (3) -
We also, this is a few weeks back now, we wrote a thing saying it's like Pete Rose being on second base calling his bookie.
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MERCENARY 1: Beta on Second, en route to Towers with Echo.
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Her pink dress was the prettiest default outfit (Felicity's is a close second), and I mean, come on.
Blog text (2) -
He played second base brilliantly, making several important plays to secure the victory.
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The coach emphasized that the second baseman must be quick on his feet to cover the infield.
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During the game, the second baseman fielded a hard-hit ground ball and threw it to first base for the out.
Synonyms
18
4.4
A player who stands near second base and catches or throws the ball to get runners out
8
4.2
A player who stands near second base and catches or stops ground balls
1
7.3
A baseball player who plays at second base
A woman who plays second base on a baseball team
Idioms
- Informal
8
6.0
A person who has a less important role and helps someone more important
Compounds
27
2.8
A child of your parent's first cousin who shares your great-grandparents but not your grandparents
18
4.4
A player who stands near second base and catches or throws the ball to get runners out
12
6.0
A junior officer with the lowest rank in the Army, Air Force, or Marine Corps
6
6.3
A meeting of Catholic Church leaders from 1962 to 1965 that changed worship and encouraged talks with other Christian churches
- Specialized
6
7.0
Energy naturally spreads from hot places to cold ones, increasing disorder
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4.1
A measure of speed that shows how many kilometers something moves in one second
4
5.0
An upper seating area at the back of a theatre with the least expensive seats
3
4.3
A woman who cares for someone like a mother, often with or instead of their own mother
- Specialized
3
3.0
Words that refer to the person or people you speak to, for example 'you'
- Specialized
1
7.9
A stomach part in animals like cows that helps break down plant food
- Archaic
1
7.7
A period in old age when mental decline makes a person behave like a young child
- Specialized
1
2.8
A unit that shows how many small pieces of information called bits are sent every second
- Specialized
1
4.7
A rule that says how a force makes an object move faster depending on its mass
- Specialized
1
4.5
A rule that a force changes an object's motion more when the force is bigger or the object is lighter
- Specialized
1
6.7
The distance light travels in one second in empty space, about 300,000 kilometers
- Jargon
1
6.5
A system or tool that stores information to help you remember and organize things
- Specialized
1
6.8
An extra second added to clocks so they match how fast the Earth turns
1
8.9
A war between China and Japan from 1894 to 1895 that ended in a clear Japanese victory
1
8.8
A military campaign by European Christians in the 1100s to take back the Holy Land that failed because leaders fought
- Specialized
1
4.4
A unit for measuring how fast a computer processor runs, equal to one million instructions per second
1
9.9
A church meeting in 787 that stopped destroying religious images and allowed their use in worship
Surface Forms
Etymology
Second as a baseball position is simply the player near second base and so is called 'second' because they work at the 'second' base on the field.